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At the end of the Cold War and under the influence of globalisation, China has adopted the strategy of new regionalism to maintain its peaceful development. It considers East Asia as priority of foreign relations and Northeast Asia as gravity of the region. It has been working to unify Northeast Asian countries, and to make the integration process in East Asia more effective. It believes that more unified Northeast Asia and East Asia will serve as platform to its peaceful development in the globalised world. The objective of this research is to study the relevance between new regionalism and China's peaceful development. This research is an empirical study. It uses the theory of new regionalism to analyse China’s regional strategy of cooperation in Northeast Asia and East Asia. It adopted qualitative design, and uses both primary and secondary sources. It is a combination of historical, descriptive, comparative, and analytical methodologies, and the method of discourse analysis is used to comment China's new thinking on regionalism. The findings of the research are: China’s strategy of new regionalism, which is a multilateral and multidimensional approach, helps significantly its peaceful development in the age of globalisation. It has also accelarated the building up of East Asia Community (EAC) and the formation of a new world order. Through this research, the author intends to encourage China to continue its ‘Good Neighbour Policy’ and to invite East Asian countries to cooperate more closely, widely, and deeply.